{"id":15564,"date":"2011-09-21T08:35:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T06:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15564"},"modified":"2011-09-21T08:35:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T06:35:58","slug":"cyprus-vs-somalia-children-vs-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/21\/cyprus-vs-somalia-children-vs-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus vs. Somalia : children vs. adults"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Comparison between Cyprus and Somalia, children and adults is nothing more but a coincidence in my news stream. \u00a0Consider the two articles that appeared not next to each other, but near enough for me to group them here.<\/p>\n

First, in incident in Cyprus, as reported by the Cyprus Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

AN ANNUAL festival in Anogyra village held to celebrate the honey and sesame sweet, pastelli, ended on a sour note on Saturday after three people were slightly injured in a fight over balloons.<\/p>\n

Chairs and bottles were thrown in the fight between two families that resulted in four arrests and three people getting slightly injured.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Second, a little competition in Somalia, as reported by the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An Islamist-backed radio station in\u00a0Somalia\u00a0has awarded assault rifles and hand grenades to the winners of a children’s Qur’an recital competition.<\/p>\n

Andalus radio, which is run by al-Shabaab militia, said on Monday that the first prize was an AK-47 and \u00a3450. The runner-up received an AK-47 and \u00a3320, while the child who came third received two F1 hand grenades and \u00a3250. The three children also received religious books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There goes my hope for the World Peace<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Comparison between Cyprus and Somalia, children and adults is nothing more but a coincidence in my news stream. \u00a0Consider the two articles that appeared not next to each other, but near enough for me to group them here. First, in incident in Cyprus, as reported by the Cyprus Mail. AN ANNUAL festival in Anogyra village … Continue reading Cyprus vs. Somalia : children vs. adults<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[1247,338,107,2870,2463,2803],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-children","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-somalia","tag-violence","tag-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8992,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/22\/30th-cyprus-internation-state-fair\/","url_meta":{"origin":15564,"position":0},"title":"30th Cyprus Internation State Fair","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 22, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"30th Cyprus International Fair opened its doors for visitors on May 20th. 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